On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Nezmer <arch@nezmer.info> wrote:
FYI, I had this discussion with the radeon guys months ago in IRC. Apparently, kernel guys (maybe Linus) decided to not add new firmware files to the kernel tree. That's why we have all those firmware packages for in-tree modules.
Depending on what direction the kernel guys have taken, there is another option worth considering. If firmware is now only added to a separate repository, namely linux-firmware.git [1], it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to switch our kernel firmware package to that [2]. Fedora has done something similar with their linux-firmware [3] package. Anyway, I'm not really sure what the best course of action is here. The above option does seem like a more general and future-proof solution to this kind of issues. As a bonus, it also covers several Intel wireless cards, thus making their respective -ucode packages [4] in [core] redundant. @Devs: The final decision is yours. :) [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=summary [2] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/dwmw2/firmware/ [3] http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/linux-firmware/ [4] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=-ucode